Upon hearing the last sentence, Cheng Zongyang couldn't help but take another look at Zhang Chuchu.
'He really is a meticulous and intelligent man,' Cheng Zongyang thought. 'No wonder he could serve as a family's steward and manage things for over a decade without issue. If not for outside forces, he'd probably still be in that position.'
But then Cheng Zongyang asked,
"If the Soul-Loss Pit has never been filled, why didn't they send the bodies there when the County Town was being cleared?"
Steward Zhang shook his head slightly.
"I'm not entirely clear on the details. But I imagine it wouldn't have been large enough. Besides, no one even considered sending the bodies to the Soul-Loss Pit.
With so many corpses back then, nobody wanted to detour from West City to South City and then walk another long stretch. Besides, they were short-handed. The round trip was a long haul, and it was far easier just to burn the bodies."
